[3616] in Athena Bugs
kinit doesn't work in one tty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Nov 10 11:32:08 1989
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 89 11:31:25 -0500
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: kerberos-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
First, the symptoms:
pit-manager% tty
/dev/ttyp1
pit-manager% /usr/athena/kinit
MIT Project Athena (pit-manager)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: jik
Password:
kinit: Password incorrect
pit-manager% tty
/dev/ttyp0
pit-manager% /usr/athena/kinit
MIT Project Athena (pit-manager)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: jik
Password:
pit-manager%
No matter what kerberos principle I use, when I try to kinit in ttyp1
I get "Password incorrect." Obviously, the password is *not*
incorrect. This is 100% duplicatible *right now* *on this particular
tty*, but I don't know how long it'll last -- it might go away if I
logout, or reboot, or whatever.
Additional information:
1. my environment is identical in both windows
2. my path is the same in both windows
3. I'm using the same ticket file in both windows
4. there are no unusual processes running ont typ1
5. if I close the xterm on that tty, then start up another xterm that
gets the same tty, the same problem occurs.
6. The permissions on the tty and pty were the same in the problem
window and another window that works fine.
7. I just managed to get rid of the problem by closing the xterm and
starting up an emacs shell in that tty. Kinit worked in the emacs
shell, and then worked in an xterm after I closed the emacs shell
and started up an xterm to get back the same tty.
8. This happened both with the kinit in /usr/athena on the NFS RT packs
and the kinit in rtbin in the AFS krbuser locker.
9. "stty everything" revealed the same settings as a tty that was
working.
10. Kinit reports nothing unusual when debugging is turned on, just
tells me I typed my password wrong.
11. It happened when I used xterm's secure keyboard option too.
I suspect that this problem is not reproduceable, but I thought I
should report it anyway.
jik
